Rapoport's bathymetric rule and the latitudinal species diversity gradient for Northeast Pacific fishes and Northwest Atlantic gastropods: Evidence against a causal link

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1153-1159

  Smith, Katherine F ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth; Fish; Gastropods; Latitude; Rapoport's bathymetric rule; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DEPTH; FISH; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MOLLUSC; RANGE SIZE; RAPOPORT RULE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041733222     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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